{"id":10092,"date":"2013-06-30T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T00:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=10092"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T00:17:46","slug":"exploding-princesses-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/exploding-princesses-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploding princesses, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Via Darwin Catholic<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

\"Siegfried<\/a><\/p>\n

An unexpected Dragonball<\/em><\/strong> fan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In my ballet training, I had no enemy but myself. Especially when I would watch myself in the mirror in the studio and execute my ballet routines, I often envisioned myself as Son-Goku struggling with the enemy. When I would fail, my hair would look darker; when I would triumph over a seemingly impossible task, my hair would appear blonder than it is.
\n Whenever people watch me dance, I hope they see the character I\u2019m trying to impersonate onstage. I might be the noble prince from Swan Lake or the Prodigal Son; I might be a beggar or a soldier. In reality, I am just a geek owing everything I can do to an ape alien named Son-Goku.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Man Who Was Thursday<\/em><\/strong> was one of my favorite books years ago. I thought it was a fantasy, but apparently it is one of the most realistic spy novels ever written<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Presenting George Herriman and Krazy Kat, with appearances by archie and mehitabel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Killer trees? Poisons aside, I don’t think so. Killer bromeliads? Perhaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What is the worst Bob Dylan song<\/a>? I’m tempted to say all of them \u2014 Zimmerman, to my ears, has a modest talent for doggerel and none whatsoever for music \u2014 but some of his songs are worse than others. I’ll nominate one that’s a bit obscure nowadays (though not obscure enough), “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee
\nWith a soulful bounding leap
\nAnd foaming at the mouth
\nHe began to make his midnight creep
\nFor sixteen nights and days he raved
\nBut on the seventeenth he burst
\nInto the arms of Judas Priest
\nWhich is where he died of thirst<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you perceive anything in the lyrics beyond the clanging rhyme, you need to detox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Via Darwin Catholic.) ***** An unexpected Dragonball fan: In my ballet training, I had no enemy but myself. Especially when I would watch myself in the mirror in the studio and execute my ballet routines, I often envisioned myself as Son-Goku struggling with the enemy. When I would fail, my hair would look darker; when … Continue reading “Exploding princesses, etc.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-humor-and-horror","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2CM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}